Despite a host of phone and online options, many consumers exploring the state’s new public health care exchange or the offerings of private insurer Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island have eschewed convenience to get their questions answered in person.
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Jason Cardoza, owner of Truckers America LLC in North Kingstown, wasn’t scared off by the horror stories about health-exchange websites across the country or the potential risk of trusting his employees’ insurance to an untested government information technology system.
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CVS Caremark Corp. said Thursday its charitable trust awarded grants to 70 school and community health centers and clinics nationwide, part of a multi-year, $5 million effort to partner with organizations that provide health care to traditionally underserved populations.
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President Barack Obama’s declaration that 7.1 million health-plan enrollments serve as a rebuke to critics of his signature law won’t diminish the opposition nor stop the scrutiny of the overhaul’s effect.
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On Monday, March 31, 1,840 Rhode Islanders signed up for health insurance through HealthSource RI in advance of the 11:59 p.m. deadline for open enrollment, bringing the preliminary private-plan enrollment total to 27,968.
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Pharmacy benefits-management company Magellan Health Services Inc. said Tuesday it will pay as much as $370 million in cash and stock to acquire CDMI LLC, a clinical consulting company based in Newport.
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Dr. Joseph Cambio has been named director of the Division of Urology at Roger Williams Medical Center. Cambio has been a leader in advancing urological practice in Rhode Island, taking major roles in the introduction of prostate ultrasonography and laser lithotripsy to the state.
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